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Vaclav Smil. Prime Movers of Globalization: The History and Impact of Diesel Engines and Gas Turbines. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2010. 261 pp. ISBN 978-0-262014434, $29.95 (cloth), ISBN 978-0262518765, $15.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 190-192
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Fred Inglis. A Short History of Celebrity. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. 328 pp. ISBN 9781400834396, $29.95 (cloth).
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- 13 March 2014, pp. 405-407
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Paul Gootenberg and Luis Reygadas, editors. Indelible Inequalities in Latin America: Insights from History, Politics, and Culture. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2010. xvi +228 pp. ISBN 978-0-8223-4719-4, $79.95 (cloth); 978-0-8223-4734-7, $22.95 (paper).
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- 02 July 2015, pp. 928-930
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Jamie K. McCallum. Global Unions, Local Power: The New Spirit of Transnational Labor Organizing. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2013. xv + 159 pp. ISBN 978-0-8014-7862-8, $21.95 (paper).
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- 02 July 2015, pp. 931-933
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Edmund Phelps. Mass Flourishing: How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-691-15898-3, $29.95 (hardcover).
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- 06 March 2014, pp. 407-409
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Bernhard Rieger. The People’s Car: A Global History of the Volkswagen Beetle. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2013. 416 pp. ISBN 9780674050914, $28.95 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 192-195
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Greg Urban. Corporations and Citizenship. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. vi+ 384 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4602-5, $59.95 (cloth).
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- 02 July 2015, pp. 933-935
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Richard Vahrenkamp. The Logistics Revolution: The Rise of Logistics in the Mass Consumption Society. Lohmar/Köln: Josef Eul Verlag GmbH, 2012. viii + 281 pp. ISBN 978-3-8841-0118-8, € 59 (paper).
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- 16 April 2014, pp. 410-411
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Ann M. Carlos and Frank D. Lewis. Commerce by a Frozen Sea: Native Americans and the European Fur Trade. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010. 264 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4231-7, $49.95 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 195-197
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William R Nester. From Mountain Man to Millionaire: The “Bold and Dashing Life” of Robert Campbell. University of Missouri Press, 2011. 360 pp. ISBN 978-0-8262-1926-8, $70.00 (cloth); ISBN, 978-0-8262-1929-9, $29.95 (paper).
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- 13 March 2014, pp. 412-414
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Catherine Higgs. Chocolate Islands: Cocoa, Slavery, and Colonial Africa. Columbus, OH: Ohio University Press, 2012. 236 pp. ISBN 9780821420065, $26.95 (cloth), ISBN 9780821420744, $22.95 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 197-200
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Aldo Musacchio and Sergio G. Lazzarini. Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2014. viii + 309 pp. ISBN 978-0-674-72968-1, $55.00 (cloth).
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- 02 July 2015, pp. 936-938
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Steven Fenberg. Unprecedented Power: Jesse Jones, Capitalism, and the Common Good. College Station, TX: Texas A&M University Press, 2011. xiii+611 pp. ISBN 978-1-60344-434-7, $35 (cloth); ISBN 978-1-62349-157-4, $24.95 (paper).
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- 16 April 2014, pp. 414-416
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Jean-Christian Vinel. The Employee: A Political History. Philadelphia, PA: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013. 304 pp. ISBN 978-0-8122-4524-0, $47.50 (cloth).
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- 02 July 2015, pp. 938-941
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Olivier Zunz. Philanthropy in America: A History. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2011. x + 382 pp. ISBN 978-0-691-12836-8, $29.95 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 200-202
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ESO volume 15 issue 2 Cover and Front matter
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- 18 February 2015, pp. f1-f5
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Niv Horesh. Chinese Money in Global Context: Historic Junctures between 600 BCE and 2012. Redwood City, CA: Stanford University Press, 2013. 384 pp. ISBN 9780804787192, $65.00 (cloth).
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- 02 July 2015, pp. 941-944
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Brian Schoen. The Fragile Fabric of Union: Cotton, Federal Politics, and the Global Origins of the Civil War. Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009. vii + 384 pp. ISBN 0-8018-9303-8, $57.00 (cloth); 1-4214-0404-4, $30 (paper).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 202-204
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John Laurence Busch. Steam Coffin. Captain Moses Rogers and the Steamship Savannah Break the Barrier. New Canaan, CT: Hodos Historia, 2010. vi +726 vi +726 pp. ISBN 978-1-893616-00-4, $35.00 (cloth).
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- 18 February 2015, pp. 204-206
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François Caron. Dynamics of Innovation the Expansion of Technology in Modern Times. New York, NY: Berghahn Books, 2013. 254 pp. ISBN 978-0-85745-723-3, $95.00 (cloth).
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- 02 July 2015, pp. 944-946
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